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Full Title	Rutland herald, v. 35, no. 2, January 6, 1829.
Date Added	10 September 2019
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1829-01-06
Publisher	Rutland, Vt. : Edward C. Purdy
Source	Newspapers
Alternate Title	The Royalist : a tale of the revolution.
Topic	Rutland (Vt.) > Newspapers. Rutland County (Vt.) > Newspapers. Vermont > Newspapers.
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OCR 2 Asp HIS PARAMOUI. y heard, through various e ‘hannels, niier. which goes to sender ive verba' » ina ma the fact very probable, that Geo, Van Si ingen, who is charged with h { & his wile in Alleghany county, j } ber last, was racently taken near the Red Riv sly t er,in Kentucky, together with Rachel Cun- keeper, (who is 0 house they had pussed the night. their depariure, the ny Gov. Kent's proclamation, describing Swear- fngen and his paramear, suspic 3 direct- ast thems the p » collecting a bors, went in ‘pus and overtook, mi. From another so source we have freard the fol- lowing story of Rachel Conwinghons, to whom Lillo’s: Milhoood, in the te of George cand up at Be vdford, Pa. where S ly early initaated i into the cor- tuptions o “during the watering season’ Gilionable and iiventious place, Ot her e ly history, howeve er, we have beard nothing, was ly luvel; eaks of naiore's workmanship—tivalling, pera the fabled us. in in the in Co. Is—she visited F e 0) y and hitherto respectable ‘merchants of that county, and effected a sepa- ration between Wimselt himself and wife.— Stung at fengeh with athe bound iia, and by a successful stratagem, el: fected through the aid of one of his clerks, he sucaceded i in extricating himself, ie por Stifs to Pins isburgh y wher th weal Itny Dl the proprietor also of an extensive li whose infidelity threw his wifeinto a a peas ‘and caused her ina ment of revenge and desperation, to set fire her husband’s possessions, by which bis ex tensive stables and forty horses were cor is effected the _ wife's modern Millwood ©. was again cast upon the world. © "The scene next Bs a shifts to Harrisburgh, the eapital of Pennsyl- was another matrimonial separation, reason for Ieaving him we do not remember, ering excitement. "fo her he saérificed every The fat ‘and last act is yet to be performed. ‘The materials are at hand—tie dungeon scene —the gallows—the executioner—the bled multitude—the lying speech, and thestow but certain triumph of justice. e history is ‘bret but what a tale does “7OL. os. desives;| y= 88 they : stoad | in the biaana ofa_beznti sio ing wrought up to the highest state.of bewild- | 422 which those for whom I throw out these re- flections cannot comprehend, aad until they can, they will never make their fortune by their faces. ‘The roses of youth are not long in bloom, and w hen time has torn them away, there is an- e1 Jove at first sight; and on that they ys seem by their manner th sel- ting themselves off chiefly to depen 'o be wared at a few seasons, and neglected, ai in pradence and discretion even the most substan al ornaments, though they excite ad- mniration, wil r procure esteem. lence is soperio r to pearls, and there Kindo of comparison between diamonds and dis cretion. Fouls may be caught by the shell ; the objest of deliberation, lance and song, wi ile 0 others grure'tho natal day AM For n pro} Tow swift by silver rpinome move. 1 will not bonst how off and bright is day I mean to bring, “ howe many a downy pin lt ig Th bewaty gave my w ‘Phy hand m) bentowed — owed, ch eo rich, a prize In Pleasures gayest Paradise . “Midst sands that sparkle in iny y gles No purer fin The rest may Baier bre ak and pass, But this romains bel Pride may the m in, 2 Or Love a brittle a pa ig 3 ett Pride aad Love are wl - ¥ mock m: et Lal Thos Bea dountetieits make known, Reosive my gi tof naires wealth ‘Thy mind ha: an buy witty youth cherial light apply, I vane ‘vn Hane cannot ten only Time reveals a frie _ From the Liteipuca County Post. THE ROYALIST. ALE.OF THE REVOLUTION, son te renounce thee “Asa venerable old | frosts of sixty Pinter ing young man ap arently about twenty-five, village of ——, i thou canst 60 far forget the wro: fering country, as {6 unite thing, fortune, honor, fame for her he became Violation of the eli ngs of thy father, as 1 ‘felons rhe bi will probably die a Toros connexion wih the family of his mo ? felon’s de {bitter and inveterate enemy.» I had rather follow thes tothy grave than consent to. such unio : “Recreat! ! traitor replied the other, with warmth, “if such are the terms yeu apply to one who minting ‘the right. of the mother country to govel lonies, call me e%t anfold! "We question, if written out length, whether the life of any womas in this or any other country, would present a fouler picture of self-pollution, Inst and loathsome- | ness, with amore lamentable conquest seer happiness or domestic peace. induce some hireling wri+ aad nuore sordid publisher, to collect the pa sraiculars sf her Bie, and spread them before + the world, professedly as.a beaeon light to fide the morals of our countrywomen from similar excesses. Bat we trust not. we ‘pook, by presenting in captivating any her eareer orerime, would do infinive mischiet, a chaste and glowing beauties . encice, an of its admirers. in virtuous inno- ‘orf Hints die ihe ‘always been xemarked, “cat ‘the generality of females have amany admirers, at the time dovers 5 and the} ‘wonder ‘at it—but reason sis cvs ty thought, bat Winking ‘a fashionable, © mi iden, lamenting the “iegeneracy e age, “courting is nothing to: what it was when Pwasyoung. ‘The flirts now-a-day awake thw fellows so saucy, that there is hard Jy to be found a respectiul lover.” servation was just. The ladies of the tet ee avere nore reppecteds breause they w proper reser’ treated with Jirence, which is ently ‘allied 3 contempt. 53 a aman na- from ber iaurel jover 3 “ie bi . ree iat was -in- Our Daphne are eople.~ Instead of fly- ing from, they ran into nthe arms of their A pol- - e afterwards surprised that: they are like a acle vage |© east Hi odor upon the circle | 5, They make themselves | never both those names. Bat whether your eause is n justice or not, all. your’ attempts resist thé authority of the Banish government, are like the endeavors of a flee to overcome an elephant: “My son the oh geen, inacalm ut firm ‘m tone, abroad Cage out the whut of these “calorie, and you them vnited as the heart of one man. Tie litde rill of popular excitement has swelled in- loa mighty streain rolling onward in ils resist- less course, and overthrowing all opposing ob- kened to a se me proach ofan enceny, they will go ferth in their night against the invader.” “Nonsense! answered the young man ;— if you can convince me Uist a pigmy is an o. veravat int, then T may be brought tech fe 10 place some ‘belief in your as he When son treats his father with disr espect and contempt,” replied the old gentleman, in- 0 terrupting him with a dignified yet determined calmness, “and ties to thwart the will of his parent in every possible manner, it is time that J wi vil furnish you with the ‘ow you can depart for jon, and Trow thence proceed 10 0 England, where you can pray i this political tempest hassweptby. ‘T' wal of you not ooly gives me exe ne pain, but will also render you sbnosious to the ends of freedom and endanger Bes e you ill Torget this foolish love sili du. ring your absence—consent to the match I will”? “Then outh; “ta-morrow, according to your ri quest end my own wish E will depart for Eng- land ; and if f am so fortunate asto arrive there in safety, never more will Tset foot upon | this bs t wecureed land.” nel Francis was a afl custard blessed wh all the bounties beaver could bestow.’ ’ His wife had and Left ion an only sen to moar ithe Ae rable loss. Owing to the infant an imperfect state of our literary stitutions, he had thought it best to educate his son in To Tand. Asa matter oto he imbibed the English doctrines aud prejudi ma back a thorough Eglin in resry thing birth. The American ng+ but the man worth having will make the gem f _} cause, and looked u ur sentiments | $0 ‘ou lose your son forever,” said the | # nent cir- sented to parliament for a redress of the griev- them by, the tyrannical ances imposed upon power which oppose: timent, like the lig gather ed strength, until it pecan ie $0 inighty as to sweep pall bi retort it, His son, who held to hat the mother country had right to doa as ie would to her ‘lependencies, and had not pow transcended the oft justice, foun sy edt and set in | Judge staunch and a near neighbor of Col, Francis, Pereps what | gave the sentiments of the Judge more weight and a greater zest to hi firm belief of the injustice of the Anerican ers as Naturally traitors to their king and couniy. he ealed, jeterarined to fo be the oppressions ofthe: mother foun io longer, and Col. F. wwas found on the sie o ‘justice, eavtessly ad- vocating the cause of freedom, Judge asa matter of course, was a zealous leader of those whose merrenary spine prompted them to side not on the score ot nile, but emerely. “because it was the strot The breach now be- “and Edward Francis, was obliged to use stealth in orde what he ‘knew srobate, but absolutely forbid. feelings got the mastery of his j dectared to his father his alfectio y the daughter of the Judee, and sol ted his Consent to their ne Ft woul 3 3 At length his igen vniol be dificult to determine which beponderate, en Col. Francis first heard Te have his son—and that son — desire to unite bimself with wha | ee lemy ; ol rage or grie this avowal.. an only one— daughier of his most binter en rest t and dea ert oppressor, than he could bear to think of. ohave that son not only desirous of doing this but also a firm supporter of the politica tenets of his 'adversa- “y, was doubly din cling. - He endeavored to prevail upon by all’ the arguments that reason or Peection could suggest, to relinguis! all hope of such an union ;, but to no purpose, He then tried the effet of parental authority and forbade in the most peremptory manner any forther inteenorse vith the farm ity of his oppone s led to the altercation which ‘ook lace between them whee they were first | introduced to the reader.» ‘That. evening he ade adieu to his Julia, and te next morning found him on his road to Bost z The parting between hi im et vad h father was a mixture of suppressed feeling ' A anid apparent 0! indifference, on either side... The fault. was in the young man’s education ; he had imbi- be the feelings which a majority of the Ea- he thovght bis ater was wareatonables and who is there that does not think thus when the com- mands of his parenis interfere with his own wishes in this respect?» His fawer'r feelings |™ at parting -with an only son ander snch cir- umatances, may be more easily imagined than | * des sci Bu he could endure any thing " ther th him marry in such direct vio- lation of his ‘rises, and perhaps cope the cause of the British goveramedt, a Ihe would do, if he remained fn the counts And when his son lefi the parental roof, the eye, consoling bimself Pith the ‘reflection that! he bud not overstepped the bonds of duty. Edward Francis on his arrival at Boston icomedintely took pass sage for England, where he arri afier a short voyage.— Uere iis “at cal views were daily sivength- y being constantly thrown inte collis- ion Gith those etlike seutiments, A large bo- i to e ease with which ke could march’ from one end of the country to the other; and, forgetting his ‘de- termination never more to set foot nthe shores of America, Edward Francie purchased a on and went out with the invaders \ e een appointed to the command of a reginient in the wader St. Clair, on the nor. ien a British army of ten wade a descent upon 'y arm- determined to evacuate the be impossible to hold them any len athot time, and rereat through the wilderness into the interior having the command of the la Ke. effected, under cover of the nights bt thenest day a detachment of te enemy. anded Gen. Fracer and Bar ides, aecompe-| i je - | ter formin, soon became ot | una ‘in his frequent visits to the house of the Judge| f } old man dashed the gathering tear from’ his| abou . fistened to with admiratior jing w RUTLAND HERALD. | “BY EDWARD C.PURDY. | WOEKAIND, VO. CUMSDA, TANUAUY 6, 238d. — O.2. the day, and halted there a short time - they then proceeded to Castleton, leaving a detach- ment of men under Col, Warwer at the. for- teee places to wait ane rear guard under h orders that they vai Bad immediately af. ction. was acci- dentally misunderstood, and they. ‘encamped at Hubbardton over nix! 1. Fra | shoot fallow the a each lying on his gun were enjoying sweet r Rose ¢ alter a toilsome and weary march dar day. Nought was heard save the measur. nw tread of the sentinel as he paced back and an forth on his allotted ground, and the fitful shriekings of the wind as it rushed wildly by. ell oe upon the ear.— rung upon his feet, grasped his firelock, ‘and ‘iraly awaited the coming foe. The next moment a large bo- | dy of Indians rushed upon then in all te de- moniac fury of savage warfare, ‘Mey were coolly received by the American soldiers o he Indians, q of men, and finding it imnossibl to penetrate the chevauxe de-frise of bayoneis which the Atnerican: line presented, immedi- | ately gave way; butat that instant the Iles sians under Baron Rvidesel came © upyand the conflict was renewed with rounds were fired, and the eer a parties closed in at the point of bayonet. The en com. menced a struggle bloody, pel de Hessian afer tienda conflict be- gan way 3 when, as ifvortune ined a ogee with the eae, another detach- ment of British troops under Gen, Frazier, arrived on the spot just as victory was declar- | © Ing in favor of te Americans. British and the American Colona Iv. Spartan spirit to defend ‘hems The moon, which had beea hid behind a cloud, now tmvelled itself, nod the 1 renewed, ‘but with such a ia} B point ore ‘numbers, y thal it was of si hort duruivon. The Ame ricams overpow- ered and borne down by the superior force of the enemy, gave way d the contusion now ecame dre ed ful id and foe were min- gled in ewe unistingushable mass. “Colonel Warner was fortunate e Ficulty Lol. Era at di ith per- rest vineres ‘formed feats of individual valor during the con- 2 nd | ict, was attacked by two Kiessian grenadiers, gasping a at his feet, and |&4 | Starting. one of whom he laid disabl bled the oe, the spot, great fary bya youn British “Surrender thysel!, thou hoary-iteaded trai- tor,” said the young man. “Never 1? replied ok Francis at ‘th foment his sword in ga deaaly thrust Shivered i in bis hand, ‘nd be received the blade of his adversary in his haart. Hedropped without x groan, and as the pale light of the moon fell upon his face it discov- ered ire feo aud determined features of fis e fixed in deat! antagonist uttered the agonizing endow “Mereifol God! Thave murdered my fa- Before ther 2? Tt was Edward Prancis, aud his sword was reeling in his father’s gor Years rolled away into the Inpse of nes, ¢/ and a miserable, looking old man, with a ben! form and tottering gait “night be seen wander nsciously through the streets of the | village of———. ‘Despair had set her seal upon his countenance, and the mark of Cain was on his brow. ‘The vacant gaze and aning stare of his eye, “Showed that n mens tal mildew had been there, “At length he was en. no more: and in one corner’ of the vil- Jage church- the remains of Edward Francis, = From the Johnstown Herald. Beware of a Swindler? Between two and iS a Sill, applied for work at c respectable citizen of this village who on that business. “At the time, ‘Sill as ‘tithe out a eat, and what clothes he had on were of little orn e, being very much worn.—. Our village iether hired Vhim, and was so well leased with him on account of his skill at the business, his industry, and his moral and els ious depustment, that he, in less than a& Ky Offered to gethimacoat, Sill tha nied hitn for the offer but declined accepting it stating, that he would not purchase one until he had earned enough to pay for’ it. “This he did in a short | time, and in a few he rigged himself oat with an excellent suit from the proceeds of his ars | From that time no person was more Sosy than g Church, outldy Coen s t prayer, enedey Scools, Se. foc... In the exercise -at prayer meetings and a schonls he soon took @ conspicue ous part, and whenever he addressed the Throne of Grace, which he often did with great apparent humility and sincerity, he was and plese. Dy|! this course of conduct he soon became a great favorite ich | the more iow us. artof eomoate é hada windfall of about 1900, in cash, ond that he was inclined to commence the mercaa- lide Losiness. “The place which be Fixed upon to locate himself at, 4 ubout ie pile nowt of Ns ae ee nt. ‘he guurd had been set, and the soldiers, \ jad for. | urd, overgrown with briars, lie | ingsborough, J highly gratified at the idea of having one so amiable, so inteligent, and ubove ail so moral and so religious as Mr. Sill setJed among them, and they therefore gave him great encourage. ment. The young ladies, too, it is whispered were nova litle pleased at the Prospect of an. | of oni acquisition to their society ot ing, so genteel and so geod looking for al these qualifications he possessed. Altheugh Sil brete ended to have $1500 i it ily believed, it t he had ne mor ona ¢ credit it was not difficult for pe i (bt a his deportment here, fully warranted. [ pened bis store n April ‘last with as general jound in most country stores except tpirituoue | Uquore—these he declared he would not keep on account of the deleteri~ ous effects they were calculated to, aed too of- ten did produce upon the murals of communi- ‘igcumstance much to | trengthen the: favorable opinion which the good people of Kingsborough had formed of Sill, and be commenced business under very fair auspi- Tis sales were considerable, and he te- penises his stock two or three mes ia the of the spring and summer, tober hie went to New York to te: a winter supply, taking special care to slip through Albuny, where he bad made his pre- vious purchases, without calling upon those to whom h ‘Lted. . His purchase in. our” con said to have been sequent vents, however, render it highly probable that they were shipped, by Sill’s order 40 Bul Under a pretence of going to the caval te | make ingniries res] goods,and tosend a box of & witha piece of Gine Tri ian, stating that it was orsare individuals in Canghnamags, rough which illge ia is going e canal, he would pass. During the sum- over Sill had opened a store a Mayfield ia the vicinity of which, as well as in Kingsborough and this village, he had collectad and borrow> what money he could, a day or two before Nothing was heard of bim for about a aweck ‘after he ‘elt the store, and people were dinary a 2 ped ‘ieee he bad seen Sill iv Utica, on tie 31st selling mittens. —From Utica, west in the Pioneer Line, w! Patronised and since Wein bas has been heara he goods remainingin his store are ai 0 ) be ee but eight or nine bundred dol- Jars, and his intebueduese is estimated at some thousands. i of his creditors are in .g | Pursuit of him. Sill is ubout 5 feet $ or 9 inches in height, slender built and of a light complexion. Pt irrsaNacn, Pa. Deca 9. » Explosion On Tuesday night la about nine o’clock, one of the steam boilers of the Union Rollie Mill, (iron works) at the eastern ace | of this Cig ‘on the Monongahela Rive with au the borizon, and describing a beautiful arch, fell into the river nearly two hundred yards from the w The steam Being on fiw and iswuing from the beiler ia n siteam of ame, it_ was beheld with astonishment ttcl board the works. few moments before passed the spot w it descended. - The furnace hich hh the four oilers were situated, ‘ein vithout the wall of » the main building, under'a alight shed, and’ the exploding boiler taking a direction our ward from the works, no other injury was < tained ty vie present ss of the boiler iesat beyond the floor on which it was ereeted. ‘The rolling apparatus alone are stopped by the accident; the hamiaers -a works vere in operation as usual om W. clea mor The k te Duke uf Sane Got otha. A case of costae importance and some curiosity i jo come on in the King’s Bench.- 1 he ‘ie Duke of Saxe Gotha, it seems, insu: ted his life with a London office foratargesum, which they refuse to pa use, as was alle~ ‘as Not, whee the ii insurance so sound a state of health as he Various repors ion of this as~ n idle. The Insureis he Dube sof e brain, er, at Teast, to disprove what has tee asserted of its nnsonndness.. ‘The phre- ne ve much interested in the mn this renvarkable case, Sir James Scarlet i is engaged on side, slongwith Mr. Peltock Sidhe. Brooghmman on the other, Prints and drawings of the uke’s head, w bch certainly exhibit brains, ged, te ‘Duke w was cflect repre val "hienseif to. be. ve bren obtained in corroborati ae nor have the heirs bee i made by which the allcgations sane id of n Reid sure ol ere al = I stndy less to please, the that we ripe for revolt against the mother tied by a body of Indians, were in full parsnit,| people of gh, who are distinguish cuca and will he exhibited in court. would give ware please, ‘Thisisa paradox country. Petition afier petition had been pree| The Anvercans arrived at Hubhardion during ed for erg pte ovate to piety, were * ° ¢

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